Yandy Smith

Yandy first appears briefly in an uncredited cameo in the first season episode "Proposal" during Chrissy's proposal party. She is also given "special thanks" in the end credits of every episode of the season.

Yandy joins the main cast of Love & Hip Hop: New York for season two, which chronicles her struggles while working as Jim's manager. During the season, her professional relationship with Jim falls apart, culminating in a violent brawl with Chrissy at a Miami nightclub, and ending with Jim and Chrissy severing their relationship with Yandy for good.

On July 16, 2012, Yandy gave birth to her first child, Omere, while filming the show's third season. The season introduces Mendeecees Harris, her on again, off-again boyfriend since 2007, and chronicles their engagement and subsequent wedding plans, which are interrupted when Mendeecees is forced to turn himself into custody for multiple drug and trafficking charges. Season four shows Yandy trying to adjust to life with Mendeecees locked up awaiting sentencing. The couple are reunited in season five when Mendeecees is released on bail, and Yandy gives birth to their second child, Skylar, on January 26, 2015.

On May 25, 2015, Yandy and Mendeecees were married live on VH1 as part of the special Love & Hip Hop Live: The Wedding.

While filming the show's sixth season, Mendeecees is sentenced to eight years in jail and turns himself in. Season seven chronicles Yandy's strained relationships with Mendeecees' baby mamas, Samantha and Erika, which explodes into a vicious feud, as the women fight for custody for Mendeecees' oldest children, Lil’ Mendeecees and Aasim. During the season, Yandy admits that her televised wedding was "symbolic" and that her marriage to Mendeecees is not legal.

Later seasons chronicle Yandy's struggles to repair her broken friendship with Kimbella, having had a falling out behind the scenes during season eight. Their feud intensifies in season nine, when Yandy begins the process of adopting a foster child, Infinity, and Kimbella questions her motivations for doing so, claiming it was all for "clout". In season ten, Yandy and Kimbella are once again at each other's throats, after Kimbella buries the hatchet with Yandy's nemesis Chrissy.

Yandy also appears in an episode of Love & Hip Hop Atlanta: After Party Live!, as a guest star in the spin-off show Remy & Papoose: Meet the Mackies and in the specials 40 Greatest Love & Hip Hop Moments, Dirty Little Secrets, The Love Edition, Love & Hip Hop Awards: Most Certified and 40 Greatest Love & Hip Hop Moments: The Reboot.